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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: news regarding mysql 5.1 incomplete
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:05:24
Message-Id: hm4i43$57h$2@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] news regarding mysql 5.1 incomplete by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 On 02/25/2010 02:44 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
2 > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 01:45:31PM +0100, Hanno Böck wrote:
3 >> Just noticed yesterday an issue with the upgrade documentation in the news
4 >> regarding mysql 5.1 and revdep-rebuild.
5 >>
6 >> It suggests running
7 >> # revdep-rebuild --library libmysqlclient.so.15
8 >> but this is not enough. mysql has more than one library and not all
9 >> applications link against the main lib.
10 >>
11 >> On a server system (which uses as-needed), I encountered two packages (apr-
12 >> util and mysql-python) only linking against libmysqlclient_r.so.
13 >>
14 >> So at least when mysql 5.1 gets stable, we should correct this.
15 > News item updated now. It looks like qt-sql might have been linking to
16 > libmysqlclient_r too.
17 >
18 > I didn't catch it myself as I used the @preserved-rebuild support in
19 > newer Portage.
20
21 Doesn't revdep-rebuild support regular expressions? You might want to
22 use one to catch all linkages.